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Your zip code can determine your fate in North Carolina’s medical deserts

Seventy of North Carolina’s seventy-eight rural counties are considered medical deserts due to a shortage of primary care providers. And while 33% of the state’s population lives in rural areas, only 12% of physicians in the state practice there. Twenty counties in the state don’t have a single pediatrician, while another twenty don’t have a hospital. 

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Our Joy Is Resistance: The Pride of Being Latina in the United States

What I’ve realized is that pride in being Latina is also pride in survival. We come from people who endured colonization, displacement, migration, and discrimination. And through it all, they carried their recipes, songs, and stories across generations. They built homes in unfamiliar lands, worked long hours, and sacrificed so much just so we could dream bigger. Their resilience flows in our veins, and it’s something no one can ever take away from us.

Ciudadanos estadounidenses atrapados en la nueva ola de redadas migratorias

En medio de una intensificación de los operativos federales de inmigración bajo la administración, ha surgido una preocupación: ciudadanos estadounidenses y residentes legales, en su mayoría latinos, están siendo detenidos, interrogados y en algunos casos arrestados por agentes migratorios, pese a tener plena documentación que acredita su estatus. Reportes recientes en el área de Chicago ofrecen un retrato inquietante de cómo estas redadas han traspasado los límites del control migratorio tradicional.

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